diff --git a/gnucash/import-export/csv-imp/gnc-tokenizer.cpp b/gnucash/import-export/csv-imp/gnc-tokenizer.cpp
index d14ead25ba..5c1e054382 100644
--- a/gnucash/import-export/csv-imp/gnc-tokenizer.cpp
+++ b/gnucash/import-export/csv-imp/gnc-tokenizer.cpp
@@ -49,7 +49,11 @@ GncTokenizer::load_file(const std::string& path)
     GError *error = nullptr;
 
     if (!g_file_get_contents(path.c_str(), &raw_contents, &raw_length, &error))
-      throw std::ifstream::failure(error->message);
+    {
+        std::string msg {error->message};
+        g_error_free (error);
+        throw std::ifstream::failure {msg};
+    }
 
     m_raw_contents = raw_contents;
     g_free(raw_contents);
diff --git a/libgnucash/backend/xml/sixtp-dom-generators.cpp b/libgnucash/backend/xml/sixtp-dom-generators.cpp
index 3a90aae72e..fca3563bbc 100644
--- a/libgnucash/backend/xml/sixtp-dom-generators.cpp
+++ b/libgnucash/backend/xml/sixtp-dom-generators.cpp
@@ -46,14 +46,16 @@ boolean_to_dom_tree (const char* tag, gboolean val)
 xmlNodePtr
 text_to_dom_tree (const char* tag, const char* str)
 {
-    xmlNodePtr result;
-    gchar* newstr = g_strdup (str);
     g_return_val_if_fail (tag, NULL);
     g_return_val_if_fail (str, NULL);
-    result = xmlNewNode (NULL, BAD_CAST tag);
+
+    xmlNodePtr result = xmlNewNode (NULL, BAD_CAST tag);
     g_return_val_if_fail (result, NULL);
+
+    gchar* newstr = g_strdup (str);
     xmlNodeAddContent (result, checked_char_cast (newstr));
     g_free (newstr);
+
     return result;
 }